Tipper Truck incident in Bath
Discussion
It has been, rightfully, a huge story here (in Bath). Four dead, in an utterly avoidable accident; and there's no undoing that.
Good to see the sentencing ram home the Corporate Manslaughter responsibility. Apart from lengthy custodial sentence, the owner is banned from directorship for 12 years. I hope that lights a fire under other chancers.
Good to see the sentencing ram home the Corporate Manslaughter responsibility. Apart from lengthy custodial sentence, the owner is banned from directorship for 12 years. I hope that lights a fire under other chancers.
Huff said:
Good to see the sentence ram home the Corporate Manslaughter responsibility. Apart from lengthy custodial sentence, the owner is banned from directorship for 12 years. I hope that lights a fire under other chancers.
Unfortunately I doubt it will deter the complete cowboys, but might persuade some of the lazy ones to do a bit more.italianjob1275 said:
This is a very good point. One of our super brilliant CPC courses we where lectured at length (by a non HGV driver!) that it was "brakes to slow gears to go" always be in the highest gear possible and always avoid using your exhaust brake. It's all MPG MPG these days...
Why not use the exhaust brake?saaby93 said:
italianjob1275 said:
This is a very good point. One of our super brilliant CPC courses we where lectured at length (by a non HGV driver!) that it was "brakes to slow gears to go" always be in the highest gear possible and always avoid using your exhaust brake. It's all MPG MPG these days...
Why not use the exhaust brake?Naturally when it was my turn behind the wheel, bugger the mpg, foot in the bucket, go for it.
Back on topic, standards of the really criminally negligent end of the transport industry is beyond belief. Written about it before but one fatal coach crash years back, the brakes hadn't been serviced and were completely ineffective on one axle and only partly on the other. Similarly the mechanisms to warn of excessive friction material wear varied between seized or disconnected. Driver unfamiliar with vehicle did his moving brake test first thing, OK for that, but once on a journey with lots of stops and starts and hills the result was unfortunately inevitable.
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